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90_HB1213
210 ILCS 85/10.5 new
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that in a
hospital that offers the kinds of services that can be
performed by a licensed clinical psychologist, no Illinois
law, rule, practice, or policy shall prohibit licensed
clinical psychologists from being accorded clinical
privileges and being appointed to staff membership positions.
LRB9003930LDdv
LRB9003930LDdv
1 AN ACT to amend the Hospital Licensing Act by adding
2 Section 10.5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by
6 adding Section 10.5 as follows:
7 (210 ILCS 85/10.5 new)
8 Sec. 10.5. Licensed clinical psychologists. If a
9 hospital offers the kinds of services that can be performed
10 by licensed clinical psychologists, no provision of Illinois
11 law, agency rule or practice, or institutional or staff
12 bylaw, rule, or policy shall discriminate against licensed
13 clinical psychologists by prohibiting them from being
14 accorded clinical privileges and being appointed to all
15 categories of staff membership, including medical staff
16 membership. The accordance and delineation of staff
17 membership and clinical privileges for licensed clinical
18 psychologists by a hospital licensed under this Act shall be
19 determined on an individual basis and be commensurate with an
20 applicant's education, training, experience, and demonstrated
21 competence. Reasonable, nondiscriminatory standards for the
22 evaluation of an applicant's credentials shall be formulated
23 by each hospital. A hospital that admits patients for
24 treatment of mental illness may grant to a licensed clinical
25 psychologist an opportunity to admit, treat, and discharge
26 patients. If a hospital grants a psychologist hospital staff
27 privileges under this amendatory Act of 1997, the
28 psychologist or the hospital shall, prior to or at the time
29 of hospital admission of a patient, identify an appropriate
30 physician with admitting privileges at the hospital who shall
31 be responsible for the medical evaluation and medical
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1 management of the patient for the duration of his or her
2 hospitalization.